OTTAWA -- Ontario health officials are reporting 29 new cases of COVID-19 in Ottawa. The new figure is among 1,300 new cases of COVID-19 confirmed provincewide.
Public Health Ontario also reported 19 new deaths in the province and 1,434 newly resolved cases. Ottawa has also seen five cases of the B.1.1.7 COVID-19 variant and one case of the B.1.351 variant to date.
Ontario was previous reporting six total cases of B.1.1.7 in Ottawa but the figure was adjusted in Saturday's report. The province says, "Data corrections or updates can result in case records being removed and/or updated and may result in totals differing from past publicly reported case counts." An updated local snapshot of COVID-19 in Ottawa from Ottawa Public Health is due